the maple kind video was posted in may, 2011 about 11 months ago but i just saw it yesterday and showed it to Terry tonight and learned to imitate the dog; ninety-nine million views but still growing, four comments of 86,000 total comments in last hour alone.
we had sausage in our pasta red sauce tonight and i asked terry if it was the maple kind and she had no clue.
Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play
wow that’s a pretty sly but right on reference: “The Music Man” about the con man Henry Hill-or is that a character from “Goodfellas”? — who gets people to order instruments for the marching band then skips town. you should sign your posts.
Reminds me that at unveiling of Sister Cities sign Le Levy sang a parody version of an obscure to most of us Broadway melody and I asked him if he wanted to collaborate on a project were he and I write pro-Palo Alto and topical new lyrics to more recent songs which he can then sing and record, like he did with Broadway tunes a couple years ago, a cd out, and he did live at least a version of “Loverly” about Lytton Plaza. I am thinking: “Heartshaped Box” “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, Foster the People.
How many gateway buildings do we need? There are two or three now proposed.
I was gonna make fun of this process and blend it with “maple kind”. Like the applicant goes thru a long list of benefits — parking, parking incentives, space for an ngo, and free bacon for both the tenants and the neighbors, as a perk, the special bacon that is maple cured — I am making a pop reference that 100 million people get but probably not anybody at The Weekly or the next five posters here — and a council member, I won’t name by name but like Gary Trudeau’s “B.D” I think of him as having a football helmut, he goes (he’s a guy, making the odds only 1 in 5 that you can guess who he’s based on):
“You mean the maple kind?” and he votes yes, in all three amendments.
Good job council for lopping off the gratuitous fifth floor and tower. By the way, some say it should be 35′ limit not 50′ since it is a neighborhood after all.
Speaking of chamber of commerce, as a poster (“Deal Maker”) just was, and if this is not too much of a red herring, but I saw an excellent presentation by a former US Attorney named Jeff Clements who is fighting to repeal Citizens United vs. FCC, which allows corporations and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to give soft money unrestricted to elections. I actually texted YY our mayor suggesting a City resolution on that topic, as other municipalities have done. We should keep an eye, if I follow the gist of Deal Maker’s comment, on who gives money to City Council race this summer. Let’s see if we can elect a Palo Alto City Council member — just one would be a small miracle, where have you gone LaDoris Cordell? — independent of the developers, or better turn out an incumbent and pick two indies.
The reason I go bonkers on local land issues is that I am actually worried about what happens on a national level: wars, bailouts, etc. If democracy does not actually work here, how could it work scaled up to nation of 300 million?
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 
wow that’s a pretty sly but right on reference: “The Music Man” about the con man Henry Hill-or is that a character from “Goodfellas”? — who gets people to order instruments for the marching band then skips town. you should sign your posts.
Reminds me that at unveiling of Sister Cities sign Le Levy sang a parody version of an obscure to most of us Broadway melody and I asked him if he wanted to collaborate on a project were he and I write pro-Palo Alto and topical new lyrics to more recent songs which he can then sing and record, like he did with Broadway tunes a couple years ago, a cd out, and he did live at least a version of “Loverly” about Lytton Plaza. I am thinking: “Heartshaped Box” “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, Foster the People.
How many gateway buildings do we need? There are two or three now proposed.
I was gonna make fun of this process and blend it with “maple kind”. Like the applicant goes thru a long list of benefits — parking, parking incentives, space for an ngo, and free bacon for both the tenants and the neighbors, as a perk, the special bacon that is maple cured — I am making a pop reference that 100 million people get but probably not anybody at The Weekly or the next five posters here — and a council member, I won’t name by name but like Gary Trudeau’s “B.D” I think of him as having a football helmut, he goes (he’s a guy, making the odds only 1 in 5 that you can guess who he’s based on):
“You mean the maple kind?” and he votes yes, in all three amendments.
Good job council for lopping off the gratuitous fifth floor and tower. By the way, some say it should be 35′ limit not 50′ since it is a neighborhood after all.
Speaking of chamber of commerce, as a poster (“Deal Maker”) just was, and if this is not too much of a red herring, but I saw an excellent presentation by a former US Attorney named Jeff Clements who is fighting to repeal Citizens United vs. FCC, which allows corporations and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to give soft money unrestricted to elections. I actually texted YY our mayor suggesting a City resolution on that topic, as other municipalities have done. We should keep an eye, if I follow the gist of Deal Maker’s comment, on who gives money to City Council race this summer. Let’s see if we can elect a Palo Alto City Council member — just one would be a small miracle, where have you gone LaDoris Cordell? — independent of the developers, or better turn out an incumbent and pick two indies.
The reason I go bonkers on local land issues is that I am actually worried about what happens on a national level: wars, bailouts, etc. If democracy does not actually work here, how could it work scaled up to nation of 300 million?
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